![]() ![]() Joe Camporeale/USA Today Sports, via ReutersĮdgar Berlanga, a 24-year-old power puncher from Brooklyn, settled in, survived a knockdown, and won a 10-round unanimous decision over Marcelo Esteban Coceres, using forward movement and heavy punches to raise a welt on Coceres’ left eye. Show moreĮdgar Berlanga was knocked down, but still won big over Marcelo Esteban Coceres. The bout was then slated for July, but Fury and members of his team tested positive for the virus, postponing the event until now. But an arbitrator ruled in May that Fury had to fight Wilder by Sept. The pandemic and failed negotiations affected the third fight’s timing, and Fury began talking with another heavyweight, Anthony Joshua, and in March signed a two-fight deal to unify their titles. ![]() “What it tells me is that he’s a weak, mental little person who I am going to knock out on Saturday night.” “Maybe if you’d come out with one of these excuses, which would have been believable, but not 50 of them, come on,” Fury said. He also accused Fury, without evidence, of fighting with tampered gloves. He claimed the costume he wore while entering the ring - a 40-pound skull-themed knight armor set intended to note Black History Month - weakened his legs. He exercised a rematch clause for a third bout, and blamed his bad performance on a bevy of unsupported rationalizations. “I just wish that my corner would have let me go out on my shield,” Wilder said in the ring. Wilder immediately rejected the decision by his corner. Fury was dominant and by the seventh round, Wilder’s trainer, Mark Breland, saw the damage on his fighter’s body and threw in the towel. Wilder was upset when he lost the last fight to Fury, their second, in February 2020. “I did my best but it wasn’t good enough tonight,” Wilder said. Like it or not, Wilder will be forced to, as well. So did those who watched it on pay-per-view. The 15,820 spectators in T-Mobile Arena believed it. But Fury left no lingering questions and completed this trilogy in a conclusive fashion. He will always be remembered as the man who defended his heavyweight belt 10 times, and as a powerful knockout artist. None of those factors saved him, though, from experiencing his second loss, and to the same person. On Saturday, he walked with a minimalist (by his standards) robe. In his last clash with Fury, Wilder said the 40-pound costume he wore weakened his legs. He fired his former trainer, Mark Breland and hired Malik Scott, a boxer whom he defeated in 2014, to diversify his approach. Wilder bulked up to 238 pounds, the largest he ever weighed for his professional career. Wilder knocked down Fury twice in the bout, and caught him plenty in several close rounds. In a locker room interview before the fight, Fury said he had contracted the virus twice. The third fight had been scheduled for July, but Fury and members of his camp tested positive for the coronavirus, postponing the bout until Saturday. Usyk defeated Joshua via unanimous decision last month, and Joshua’s promoter told ESPN that the fighter had exercised his rematch clause.įury and Joshua had signed a two-fight deal in March, but an arbitrator ruled that Fury had to complete the trifecta with Wilder. ![]() Fury most likely will compete against the winner of the fight between Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua in a title unification bout. The rubber match’s result should streamline the heavyweight division, which has stalled for months after the pandemic and the court system complicated this trilogy. When the chips are down, I will always deliver.” “I always said I was the best in the world and he was the second best,” Fury said. Though Wilder recovered, it clearly hurt him heading into the next round, leading to the climatic finish. Tyson Fury vs Deontay Wilder preliminary card resultsīruce Carrington def.Tyson Fury with another knockdown on Deontay Wilder in round 10, but Wilder gets through the round! THIS FIGHT! □īuy #FuryWilder3 PPV: /PtU9BQFtIj- FOX Sports: PBC October 10, 2021 Vladimir Tereshkin via TKO (02:51 of Round 2) Deontay Wilder via KO ( 01:10 of Round 11)įrank Sanchez def. ![]() 'Babyface' looked to exact revenge after losing to Helenius last year via knockout.Įdgar Berlanga and Marcelo Esteban Coceres clashed for the vacant WBO NABO super-middleweight title on the Tyson Fury vs. In another clash of heavyweights, Poland's Adam Kownacki faced Finnish veteran Robert Helenius in a rematch. Sanchez's WBO-NABO and WBC Continental Americas titles were on the line. The co-main event of the night was a heavyweight bout between Cuba's Frank Sanchez and Nigeria's Efe Ajagba. ![]()
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